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The modernist home

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The Modernist house was a test of modern architects’ ability to meet human needs while fuelling the intellect. "The Modernist home" reveals the striking results of the challenge to fit utopian modernist principles to day-to-day living. The Modernist house dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, modernising the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light and providing balconies and terraces for sun-worship and sleeping in the open air. Tim Benton uncovers its elements: from the technology that provided central heating and electric lighting; to new construction materials, such as concrete and steel; to close-ups on features like winter gardens and folding furniture. He opens the door on Modernist houses around the world, from Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, to Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, all fully illustrated with colour photographs and plans.

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Le Corbusier's Pavilion for Zurich: model and prototype of an ideal exhibition space

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Le Corbusier's Pavilion for Zurich uses numerous handwritten documents, drawings, and papers to trace the history of Le Corbusier's last built work. This dwelling, which is also a museum, was initiated by Zurich gallery owner Heidi Weber. With its abstract forms and colors, it represents an intellectual legacy of the famous architect in which the further development of architecture as envisaged by Le Corbusier is clearly legible. From the first ideas and sketches from and beyond, the genesis of this exceptional building - the completion of which the architect did not live to see - is presented with illustrations and documents. This book explains the significance of the pavilion, which differs strongly from the beton brut of Le Corbusier's late work, in terms of its position as one of the architect's central and forward-looking works.

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Le Corbusier: secret photographer

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Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer provides new insights into Le Corbusier's visual imagination, his changing attitudes towards nature and materials in the 1930s, and his distrust of progress. While Le Corbusier always claimed that he saw no virtue in taking photographs, he actually bought three cameras and took several hundred photographs between 1907 and 1917, many of them of publishable quality. In 1936 he acquired a 16mm movie camera and took 120 sequences of film and nearly 6,000 photographs with it. This previously unpublished material is the basis for the publication.

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Le Corbusier, peintre à Cap-Martin

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C’est en 1937 que Le Corbusier découvre Roquebrune-Cap-Martin et la villa de Jean Badovici E-1027, dessinée en grande partie par l’irlandaise Eileen Gray entre 1927 et 1929. Il y revient en 1938 et en 1939. Impressionné par l’ingéniosité et le charme de la villa il passe des moments agréables face à la mer et mène une vie tranquille et simple, au contact de la nature.Alors que la peinture murale est en complète contradiction avec sa définition de l’architecture comme « pur jeu de lumière et de volumes », Le Corbusier va réaliser sur ce site divers muraux, tant dans la villa d’Eileen Gray que sur les murs de L’Étoile de mer et sur les parois de son Cabanon. L’auteur revient sur les différents facteurs ayant conduit à cette conversion et replace cette évolution de l’architecte dans le contexte plus général de la peinture murale à cette période. Cet ouvrage documente, pour la première fois, l’ensemble de cet œuvre peint et dessiné, toujours existant pour la majeure partie, et donne également à voir un Le Corbusier plus libre et véritable amoureux de la Méditerranée.